Is ganbei culture dying out? American goes on a baijiu bender

Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking Cultureby Derek SandhausUniversity of Nebraska Press4/5 starsB aijiu is one of the biggest challenges Chinese culture offers to foreigners, who often describe it as “gut-rot”, “engine-cleaner” or in even less positive terms. Yet the distilled grain alcohol belongs to a drinking culture that goes back thousands of years.The boom times that followed the opening of China’s economy produced some of the world’s largest liquor companies. The…

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